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" ...] 'A Lover's Diary' has not the same modest history as 'Embers'. As far back as 1894 it was given to the public without any apology or excuse, but I have been apologising for it ever since, in one way-without avail. I wished that at least one-fifth of it had not been published; but my apology was never heard till now as I withdraw from this edition of A Lover's Diary some twenty-five sonnets representing fully one-fifth of the original edition. As it now stands the faint thread of narrative is more distinct, and redundancy of sentiment and words is modified to some extent at any rate. Such material story as there is, apart from the spiritual history embodied in the sonnets, seems more visible now, and the reader has a clearer revelation of a young, aspiring, candid mind shadowed by stern conventions of thought, dogma, and formula, but breaking loose from the environment which smothered it. The price it pays for the revelation is a hopeless love informed by temptation, but lifted away from ruinous elements by self-renunciation, to end with the inevitable parting, poignant and permanent, a ...]."
The Lane That Had No Turning
Gilbert Parker
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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A Ladder of Swords: A Tale of Love, Laughter, and Tears
Gilbert Parker
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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The Lane That Had No Turning Complete
Gilbert Parker
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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A Ladder of Swords: A Tale of love, laughter and tears
Gilbert Parker
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Extract: I IF you go to Southampton and search the register of the Walloon church there, you will find that in the summer of 157- "Madame Vefue de Montgomery with all her family and servants were admitted to the Communion"-"Tous ceux ci furent Re us l C ne du 157-, comme passans, sans avoir Rendu Raison de la foi, mes sur la tesmognage de Mons. Forest, Ministre de Madame, qui certifia qui ne cognoisoit Rien en tout ceux la p quoy Il ne leur deust administr la C ne s'il estoit en lieu p la ferre." There is another striking record, which says that in August of the same year Demoiselle Ang le Claude Aubert, daughter of Monsieur de la Haie Aubert, Councillor of the Parliament of Rouen, was married to Michel de la For t, of the most noble Flemish family of that name. When I first saw these records, now grown dim with time, I fell to wondering what was the real life-history of these two people. Forthwith, in imagination, I began to make their story piece by piece; and I had reached a romantic d no ment satisfactory to myself and in sympathy with fact, when the Angel of Accident stepped forward with some "human documents." Then I found that my tale, woven back from the two obscure records I have given, was the true story of two most unhappy yet most happy people. From the note struck in my mind, when my finger touched that sorrowful page in the register of the Church of the Refugees at Southampton, had spread out the whole melody and the very book of the song. One of the later-discovered records was a letter, tear-stained, faded, beautifully written in old French, from Demoiselle Ang le Claude Aubert to Michel de la For t at Anvers in March of the year 157-. The letter lies beside me as I write, and I can scarcely believe that three and a quarter centuries have passed since it was written, and that she who wrote it was but eighteen years old at the time. I translate it into English, though it is impossible adequately to carry over either the flavor or the idiom of the language: "Written on this May Day of the year 157-, at the place hight Rozel in the Minor called of the same of Jersey Isle, to Michel de la For t, at Anvers in Flanders.
The Living Water: Life Changing Studies on the Word of God
Gilbert Adimora
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Businesses exist to provide goods and services to customers and in so doing they take risks. Among these risks is the chance of losing money in lawsuits filed by customers, employees, and others negatively impacted by the business. Insurance provides some protection against these liabilities, but lawsuits still take their toll. This book covers the subject of economic damages and its role in insurance claims and lawsuits against businesses. After reading and understanding this book, the reader will be able to identify economic damages as a component of business liability, describe the business risk posed by economic damages, explain the key determinants of economic damages, and estimate economic damages and business loss in a variety of cases.
Tasting Life for What It Is
Gilbert Creutzberg
Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency, LLC
2012
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In the winter of 1774, Amos White, a sixteen year old young man, is doing everything he can to support his family, consisting of two younger sisters, and his mother, a widow for just over a year now. Working the family farm just outside the town of Milltown, which today goes by the name of Carversville, Pennsylvania, he comes from a long line of peaceful Quakers. All that changes one day when his mother and sisters are murdered and those guilty of the crime, try to hang him for what they did. Those that committed the crime wear the red uniform coats of the British Army, and feel that the colonies are here only to make them rich. Gone are the peaceful ways Amos grew up with, now replaced with a shear desire for vengeance against all those that wear the infamous red coats. While he seeks his revenge, his childhood sweetheart, Kendra, tries to get him to return to his former peaceful life, and hopefully settle down with her. By a strange twist of fate Amos uncovers signs that a spy ring exists near the Patriots encampment, and he soon finds himself tasked with capturing the spy. Many times he finds himself alone and behind enemy lines, as he searches for the spy. At the same time he is searching for the spy, the British, unknown to him, are searching for him, 'The Spy Hunter', ready to deal out what they consider justice.
Where Long Beards Grow: Untold Stories of Full-Timbered Men, Spanish Florida 1819.
Gilbert Keith Murphy
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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Alpha is a slave, living and working in a cooperage on the banks of the Savannah River. Unlike his good friend Parae, Alpha is not willing to accept slavery as his destiny; he is prepared to risk everything to live free. Urged on by the voice of Mama Ruti, Alpha makes a bold move to leave Savannah and slavery far behind. It is the beginning of a journey filled with joy and tragedy, and the story of the making of a free man. ****************************************** The Timuquan tribe had ruled much of the Florida peninsula for centuries, but now there were only a few who had survived the diseases brought by the white man. Salee, Tomas and Martino, sons of a Timuquan chief, were now being warned by the Spanish Governor to leave their ancestral homeland: the Americans are coming Reluctantly, the brothers accept the Governor's help and begin a hard and dangerous trip across central Florida to the Saint Marks River near the Indian village of Tallahassee. The Governor had given the Alito brothers a land grant of some beautiful property which held much promise, but on the way to their new home, their journey would bring an end to old dreams and give birth to new ones. ****************************************** About the same time, the Lady Merrimack had set sail from Boston harbor bound for the headwaters of the Saint Marks River. Its purpose was to establish a shipping port to move southern-grown cotton to a new textile mill being constructed outside Lowell, Massachusetts. The ship was commanded by Adam Toomey, a career military man who had served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle for New Orleans and had also served during the Indian wars along America's border with Spanish Florida. He is a principled man, a good commander, and not someone to be trifled with. Yet, the 2000 mile journey from Boston to Spanish Florida would not prepare this able Commander and talented crew for what they would face upriver on the Saint Marks. ****************************************** And it was there where the long beards grow on old cypress trees at a place now known as Bloody Ten Bend where these honorable men with their different dreams and aspirations would meet and be forever changed.
Gilbert and his friend Hector the Blue Heron decided to go on a nautical adventure. Join them aboard the fishing boat "The Pride of Carolina" and find out who he meets and where the journey takes them.
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) was a member of a very rare breed: a theorist of activist Marxism. Leader of the international Trotskyist movement, lifelong revolutionary, and scholar of world renown, Mandel was one of those few individuals who combined the roles of political leader with intellectual work that commands the respect of the academy. This work presents a critical appraisal of the vast range of Mandel's theoretical work. The authors assess his contributions to political and economic theory; his humanist and optimistic variety of Marxism; his crucial contribution to the analysis of the dynamic of capitalism in the late twentieth century; his analyses of the bureaucracy in the workers' movement; his conception of the problems involved in the transition to socialism; and the specific relationship that this man-who came close to perishing in the Nazi concentration camps-had to the question of the Holocaust. Finally, this volume also includes a bibliography of Mandel's works as well as two previously unpublished pieces by him, one on the Holocaust, the other on the foundations of his unrepentant commitment to Marxism.Contributors include Robin Blackburn, Norman Geras, Michael Lowy, Charles Post, Francisco Louca, Michel Husson, Jesus Albarracin, Pedro Montes, and Catherine Samary.